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invite you to see the place and the house - can't you possibly come some time this month? I expect to leave around the first of August to make my sojourn in Albany for a month and then back here for September, I think. Where will you be in August? If it isnt Newport, I may come to stay with you for a few days.

Charley came down a week ago Saturday & I spent Sunday here, which I know will interest you, & I'll tell you more about it some time in the future. We spent most of Sunday afternoon chasing water-spiders down a waterfall in the brook. It was really quite an enlivening pastime, and I

Dearest Flora -

I read the other day of Colonel Payne's death and havent had a moment until now, in which to write you. I'm so sorry dear - There's really nothing more that I can say, except that you have all my love and sympathy.

I saw Mlle. yesterday & she told me she was off to New York today and was going to you on the 15th. I told her she must persuade you to come down here, & to come herself at the same time. I do so